Brilliant audio artist Erik Belgum has just sent me some praise for "Scuff Mud"!:
Eckhard:
Thanks for a copy of Scuff Mud. Really great work. At first I was put in the mind of Captain Beefheart. I think this was partly from your delivery for some odd reason, because your delivery isn't particularly Beefheartesque. Partly from the lyrics and musical background. However, as the disc played on, and upon second listening, and even the next day, I kept having this sense that I'd listened to a really odd country and western album. I think this partly comes from your use of simple rhymes and some of your topics too. Those simple rhymes are incredibly effective when they are dropped in the context of your more oblique and unsual prose. They struck me as sort of like finding a baby's rattle in a state-of-the-art chemical research laboratory.
If you aren't familiar with Belgum's work, please check it out:
It's great stuff!
Best to you all!
Eckhard